Now that I have forum moderator rights, how do I find out who is the moderator of a particular forum? Or anyplace I can go and find list of all existing forum moderators? Think it'll be useful to communicate :)

We will add moderator badges at some point, and there will be a moderator group once the groups module is out (this fall). This thread can work as our "home" for now I guess.

So far we have Tobias (Nokia) on Tools, Johannes on Games, Denis on Desktop, chetankjain all over and Hanne (Nokia) on Education. Alexandra and I are global moderators, but Alexandra is running the "who and what" of moderation.

[quote author="chetankjain" date="1283522796"]thanks Markus, also is it recommended that moderators directly go and edit text to convert to links, add [Solved] to topic subject if solved?[/quote]

I usually edit text and convert it to links if I stumble across something. We were thinking about automating that but so far it's not in. I don't think it's a big issue but definitely more convenient to have proper links.

The [Solved] addition to the title is a more tricky one. Currently, we don't have a real process for that. At some point - when we get our Q&A forum - there should be a proper solution where the original author is able to indicate that the problem was solved and by whom. In the meantime, editing the title by adding [Solved] in front sounds like a good idea. :)

[quote author="chetankjain" date="1283523998"]Another one, is it so that only an admin can modify the FAQs? .. quite a few things (mostly minor) that could be fixed there :) [/quote]

No, they are in the hands of the Qt Support Team, the FAQ's are exported from them every night.

We are adding a feature for them to monitor comments so they can update the FAQs as needed. Also we are improving our import procedure to remove FAQs that are no longer in the nightly export, we have some orphan FAQs now.

[quote author="chetankjain" date="1283931962"]one basic question, what if as a moderator you see someone using foul language or short forms like wtf .. do u edit or just leave it considering the context? very subjective right? :) [/quote]

That's a tricky one. I'd say: it depends. The post shouldn't be offending to anyone or plain vulgar. But lines blur and what might be okay for one could be way off for someone else. Let's see how far we get with common sense.

Don’t tell anyone… but sometimes, at night, when no one is watching, for just a few minutes, wearing my 4DOS geek t-shirt, I grant myself 11k points on the test server (only for testing purposes of course), so I can surf around wearing the Mad Scientist badge, making sure it displays correctly in every thinkable context, like in the mirror. It’s just that cool.

Now, where did I put my medicine again? ;)[/quote]

now isn't that temptation enough :P by the end of all this few of us will be on medication here I guess heh heh ...